Friday, April 30, 2010

Here's another recent scan... I shot it back in color class, but I never printed it- I only ever saw it on the 35mm contact sheet. I scanned it just to see it bigger than the little contact print, but then I kinda liked it. It's cross processed making the blues/cyans of the shadows a bit exaggerated.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

I was going looking through some images I shot with my point and shoot, and I found this. It's a couple years old, and I don't really know why I took it... it's the view out my bedroom window at my dad's house. Looking at it today, I don't know, there's something about it I like...

Monday, April 26, 2010

I shot these images a loooooong time ago. When I first got my Bronica.
It's currently broken, and I've been too lazy to get it fixed (and slightly afraid of the cost).
I scanned these not too long ago, and they make me miss shooting with it, so I've decided to suck it up and buy a new body for it...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

My mum was a big fan of Dahlias, and my grandmother always had Peonies. The rest are because of the colors! (And the Thunbergia climbs, so I HAD to have those. I'm probably going to run out of things for all these flowers to climb on!)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Planted some marigolds today! It was around 7pm before they made it in the ground, so the pictures aren't the greatest.

Since I already have some morning glories growing along the shed, I wanted to get the marigolds planted ASAP, since they help protect against unwanted nibblers in the garden. (A few years ago, a cute little bunny ate all the morning glories growing there.)

I put the marigolds as close to the morning glories as possible, so the little critters stay away!

Again, here are the marigolds standing guard!

And I put those white bricks in a couple years ago to keep the bunnies from sneaking up on the morning glories from under the shed...

Here are Fred & George! Sadly, Fred lost some toes over the winter...

I also bought some geraniums today. This Mary and the planters on either side, belonged to my grandmother- my dad's mom. She used to plant red geraniums in them, so I did too!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

In addition to the usual three flower beds in the backyard, (one by the garage, one by the shed, and one along the back fence) I'm planning on giving the front yard a face lift this year. It's ambitious, I know. But I currently have some time on my hands.

Here's what I'm starting with:

This is the side of the garage where I've planted my morning glories for the past few years. I've left the past few years of them there for the new ones to climb on...

I plant the blue morning glories here because I LOVE blue flowers, and also blue morning glories were one of my mum's favorite flowers...

I usually cut back those out of control wild roses, but I didn't this year. We'll see how that goes...

I also grow some morning glories on the side of the shed, and in some of these clay pots as well.

The garage and shed gardens are all weeded and ready to go!

I planted the blue morning glories along the garage, and some red ones in a couple of these clay pots.

Every year by the shed, morning glories sprout up from seeds from last year's flowers. I never know what color(s) these will be. Usually hot pink or purple.

These sprouted up about a week or so ago. And more keep sprouting!

This is the space along the back fence. I haven't really done anything here in the past couple years (since I was living in Quincy...). The plan for this space is some wild flowers. I definitely have my work cut out for me here!

Here's the front yard. Not sure what exactly I'll do here.

We live in a duplex, but it's my uncle on the other side, so I get to give his side a face-lift too...

Monday, April 19, 2010

The other night when my nieces were here, I wanted to take some "through the viewfinder" Holga/digital pictures of them. Well, they turned out a little too snapshotty, but here's some of their feet that I liked.
Emily, the oldest, wanted me to take a picture of her feet, so I did, and then Catrina and Jamie, of course, wanted pictures of their feet too...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

I've decided to document my flowers this year. I've tried to do this before, but usually only end up with "pretty" pictures of the flowers, and nothing of the process. My plan is to start most of my flowers from seed this year. Here are all the seeds I started today:

My grandmother had Sweet Peas and Chinese Lanterns in her yard. The lanterns are cool! They really do look like lanterns. The rest are just because I like the colors and I like flowers that are vines...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Got some flares on a few of these... I've worked to avoid the flares before, but I thought I'd try to go with them this time. Maybe they'll work better next time... If the red Holga leak can work, why not the flare?

Saturday, April 3, 2010

wow, I didn't think it had been this long since I posted something... but I guess I have a good reason... moving back home, and trying to get settled and organized is kinda time consuming...

also, I've decided to get rid of a lot of stuff. I've mentioned in a previous post that my mum used to tell me that I talk to the TV just like my grandfather did. Well, something else I got from him: I'm a bit of a pack rat. Talking to the TV I don't mind. But I decided I don't want to be a pack rat any more. So as I settle and organize, I have a pile of "selling/donating" items I keep adding too as well.

I've also just been plain lazy about setting up my computer to edit photos. It IS un-packed and just staring me in the face every day...

I guess the next thing I should do is dig out my external hard drive and find some photos to edit/post... and it's so gorgeous outside today, I should make some new ones. But before that, I'm off to Verizon to get a fun and fancy new phone. I promise to keep this one away from the bath tub...